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DVD? VHS?... Anything at all???

posted 18 years ago by Oldphan
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OK... I know full well that this film is available through alternative sources... But why is there no official release of this movie? As perhaps the first werewolf movie, this certainly deserves its place among the classics of horror cinema. Its amazing to think that this movie came out the same year as the 1925 version of Phantom of The Opera... Does anyone know if these two films competed at all financially? Where they released close together? Or many months apart? ( I am completely ignorant of any fact that would lead me to believe that Wolf Blood had been a hit in USA, as Phantom was.)....

To put it very simply, I am very interested in any information that any one out there may have on this movie.... Admit-ably, I have yet to see it... For anyone out there that has, what's it like? What does the werewolf look like? Does this film have a literary antecedent?

Oldphan

[–] Stuart Gardner 16 years ago

Today it was announced by Ron Adams on Creepy Classics (great people, trust me) that Alpha Video is about to release a double feature DVD containing this film as a companion to Murnau's The Haunted Castle. They'll have it on 26 August and will be selling it for $7.00.
Ron writes:

WOLF BLOOD (1925) Stars Marguerite Clayton, George Chesbro and Ray Hanford. Directed and starring Geirge Chesbro....it seems to have been a great influence on 1941's THE WOLF MAN. The similarties seem just too great in some actual dialogue (title cards here) and themeatically. The story takes place in the Canadian woods as a freud rages between two logging companies. The manager of one is severely beaten by his rivals. To save him a doctor, in a renegade experiment to save him, uses wolf blood. Men start avoiding him, thinking he has lost his human soul. He gets angry easy and his personality changes as he believes he is becoming a wolf-man. His murderous feelings torment him like a later Larry Talbot (in THE WOLF MAN). It seems VERY likely that Curt Siodmak or someone at Universal had seen this picture and cribbed ideas and even dialogue for THE WOLF MAN. The setting is different, there is no visual hairy werewolf, but the themes are in place. There is a very cool scene of transparent "wolf ghost-phantoms" that are visualized. Not a great movie, but an important one in the foundations of early horror movies.

I've never seen the film, but Ron's a man to trust. Here's his site.
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